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ISBN10: 1400096588, ISBN13: 9781400096589, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover 352 pages. Stain on text tedgeIn this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Leb recht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry f rom Caruso's first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates th at classical recording has reached its end point-but this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. It is, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form, analyzing the cultural revolu tion wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini, Callas, Rattle, the Three Te nors, and Charlotte Church. It is the story of how stars were mad e and broken by the record business; how a war criminal conspired with a concentration-camp victim to create a record empire; and how advancing technology, boardroom wars, public credulity and un scrupulous exploitation shaped the musical backdrop to our modern lives. The book ends with a suitable shrine to classical recordi ng: the author's critical selection of the 100 most important rec ordings-and the 20 most appalling. Filled with memorable inciden ts and unforgettable personalities-from Goddard Lieberson, legend ary head of CBS Masterworks who signed his letters as God; to Geo rg Solti, who turned the Chicago Symphony into the loudest symph ...

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ISBN10: 1400096588, ISBN13: 9781400096589, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the worlds most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Carusos first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end pointbut this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. It is, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form, analyzing the cultural revolution wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini, Callas, Rattle, the Three Tenors, and Charlotte Church. It is the story of how stars were made and broken by the record business; how a war criminal conspired with a concentration-camp victim to create a record empire; and how advancing technology, boardroom wars, public credulity and unscrupulous exploitation shaped the musical backdrop to our modern lives. The book ends with a suitable shrine to classical recording: the authors critical selection of the 100 most important recordingsand the 20 most appalling.Filled with memorable incidents and unforgettable personalitiesfrom Goddard Lieberson, legendary head of CBS Masterworks who signed his letters as God; to Georg Solti, who turned the Chicago Symphony into the loudest symphony on earththis is at once the captivating story of the life ...

ISBN10: 1400096588, ISBN13: 9781400096589, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover Norman Lebrecht, assistant editor of the Evening Standard in London and presenter of BBC&#8217s lebrecht.live, is a prolific writer on music and cultural affairs, whose weekly column has been called &#8220required reading.&#8221 Lebrecht ha.
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